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Marshfield

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

From the record

“Marshfield, also known as Old Marsh Home Place, is a historic plantation house located near Trenton, Edgefield County, South Carolina. The original house, built about 1831, rests on a foundation of brick and granite rocks.”

Wikipedia article Marshfield (Trenton, South Carolina), CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 27 National Register listings published here for Edgefield County · listed in 1995 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service · the Wikipedia article

The listing

  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss, 1 site as contributing to the listing.
  • Address. Youngblood Rd. NW of Trenton, Trenton, 29847
  • When was it listed? January 1995
  • Category. building
  • Census division. Trenton
  • National Register reference number. 94001561 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

132 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 132 fires within 5 miles of Marshfield between 1992 and 2019, burning about 849 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 9 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Missing data/not specified/undetermined55
Debris and open burning44
Arson/incendiarism9
Equipment and vehicle use9
Natural4
Railroad operations and maintenance3
Smoking3
Misuse of fire by a minor2
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Recreation and ceremony1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 1995Missing data/not specified/undetermined1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
4 September 1999Missing data/not specified/undetermined17 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
28 September 2007Arson/incendiarism7.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry CommissionTRENTON
19 September 1999Debris and open burning4.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
13 September 2002Debris and open burning1.0 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
1 September 1997Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
8 August 2009Equipment and vehicle use75 acresSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named
21 August 2002Debris and open burningunder an acreSouth Carolina Forestry Commissionnot named

Every fire recorded in Edgefield County

Mines and quarries near this property

2 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 2 workings within 5 miles of Marshfield: 2 past producers. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Granite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/Broken, Granite, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Edgefield Granite QuarryGranite, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerIgneous Intrusion
Unidentified Granite QuarryGranite, Stone, Dimension, Stone, Crushed/BrokenPast ProducerIgneous Intrusion

Every working recorded in Edgefield County

Storms near this property

16 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Trenton, the town this property stands in, in 16 storm reports between 1995 and 2014: 10 thunderstorm wind, 4 hail, 1 tornado, 1 funnel cloud. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
August 2011Thunderstorm WindTrenton$2,000Public reported trees down on Watson Road just northeast of Trenton.
October 2014Funnel CloudTrenton-Public reported a wall cloud and a funnel cloud.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindTrenton-DOT reported trees down on hwy 75.
June 2007Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Sheriff reported trees down on hwy 149.
August 2007Thunderstorm WindTrenton-County official reported several trees down in Trenton and Johnston.
August 2007HailTrenton-EM reported 3/4 inch hail.
August 2006Thunderstorm WindTrenton-SKYWARN spotter reported large limbs and power outages in the Trenton area.
June 2005Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Sheriff reported large limbs down in Trenton on Woodyard Road.
May 2005HailTrenton-Public reported penny size hail.
July 2005Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Emergency manager reported trees down in Trenton and on hwy 191.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindTrenton-TV met reported trees down near the Edgefield/Aiken county line southwest of Trenton.
June 2004Thunderstorm WindTrenton-Sheriff reported several trees down in Trenton.
May 1999Thunderstorm WindTrenton-EOC reported trees down.
June 1998Tornado (F0)Trenton-SKYWARN spotter reported touchdown in field behind his house.
March 1996HailTrenton-no account filed
October 1995HailTrenton-no account filed

Every storm recorded in Edgefield County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Darby Plantation1.2 miles1974
Edgefield Cotton Mill-Addison Mill3.9 miles2022
Edgefield Historic District4.1 miles1972
Horn Creek Baptist Church4.6 miles1971
Johnston Historic District6.5 miles1983
Bettis Academy and Junior College6.8 miles1998

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 94001561 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Edgefield CountyAll 27 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

  • Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
  • Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
  • How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
  • Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.